Carolyn
Rose was awarded The George Washington University President's Medal by
President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg at a ceremony on Monday, May 13, 2002,
in Bethesda, Maryland.

Prior awardees
include Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic; Abba Eban, former
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. and former Israeli Foreign Minister; Walter
Cronkite, distinguished journalist and commentator; Victor Borge, musician/humorist;
and Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union.

At a reception
following the event, Smithsonian Undersecretary for Science J. Dennis
O'Connor personally thanked Carolyn for her contributions to both George
Washington University and the Smithsonian Institution, and, in particular,
to the Department of Anthropology, for her leadership in forging a strong
direction and vision for the future.

President
Trachtenberg's Speech

The George
Washington University is a collection of many treasures, and one of the
best and brightest of these treasures is Carolyn Rose.

Carolyn Rose
is an internationally distinguished conservation scientist who has set
the standard for the field. She earned an undergraduate degree at Sweet
Briar College in art history in 1971 and then set her sights on graduate
school at The George Washington University, only to discover that the
field that she wanted to study didn't exist.

Undeterred,
she created both the field and the degree, earning a master's degree in
1976 in special studies with a concentration that is surely the most complicated
in the university's history, since she chose to study in four areas: anthropology,
art history and classical archaeology, conservation science, and museum
studies.

Ms. Rose
went on to become one of the first ethnographic conservators in the country.
She became, in essence, a one-woman graduate school who has taught every
prominent person in the field who works with anthropological objects.
She was absolutely vital to the establishment of the Museum Studies Program
at The George Washington University, taught the first course in conservation
in the Anthropology Department at GW, and became the chair of the Department
of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

She continues
to teach, advise and serve on the Museum Studies committee and to further
strengthen the longstanding relationship between George Washington University
and the Smithsonian Institution.

Somewhere
in this country, a young person is looking through a microscope or conducting
a chemistry experiment or learning the principles of metallurgy with the
intention having a career in a field made possible by Carolyn Rose.

For her love
of learning, her scholarship, and her great contributions to her alma
mater, The George Washington University hereby bestows on Carolyn Rose
the President's Medal with all the rights, duties, privileges and opportunities
pertaining thereto.